Mint Tea

Herbal Moroccan Mint Tea

An elevated version of a classic mint tea. Contains Green Rooibos, Peppermint, Spearmint, Lemon Verbena and Passion. Organic and Caffeine Free.

Herbal Moroccan Mint Tea

Mint Teas

Touareg tea (also called Tuareg Mint Tea or Mint Tea) is a flavoured tea prepared in northern Africa, western Africa and in Arabian countries. Mint tea is central to social life in Maghreb countries. The serving of mint tea can take a ceremonial form, especially when prepared for a guest. Whereas cooking is women’s business, the tea is a male affair: the head of family prepares it and serves to the guest, usually, at least three glasses of tea.

Tuareg-Mint Black Tea

Tuareg Mint Black Tea

A rich mint tea with dynamic character. This is an excellent, calming and soothing cup of tea. This mint tea is for the lovers of mint. Delicious and lasting. A blend of Kenyan Black Tea, Malawi Black Tea, Mint Leaves, Safflower.

Herbal Hibiscus Jasmine Mint Tea

Herbal Hibiscus Jasmine Mint Tea

This delightful tea is floral in character from the jasmine flowers and enriched by a minty calming curve. The Hibiscus sure adds a touch of fun to this tea.

Mint Leaf

Mint Leaves

Close relatives of spearmint, peppermint, curly mint, ginger mint, apple mint, pineapple mint, eau de cologne mint, water mint, pennyroyal, Corsican mint

Native habitat

• Temperate areas of Europe, Asia & Africa

Growing conditions

• Mints will grow in most conditions but not too dry
• Likes damp, moist soil with shade at the roots & sun on the leaves
• Will tolerate some shade.
• Can be very invasive – ideal for containers or in buckets in the ground to restrict root growth.

Maintenance

• Control spread into lawns by mowing
• Pull up roots regularly to avoid it swamping other plants
• Water well in dry weather
• Feed when showing signs of rust disease

Parts used

• Leaves

Properties

• Pleasant smell & taste
• Has antiseptic qualities – used as a mouth freshener

Uses

• Spearmint and peppermint aid digestion
• Mint jelly and sauces
• Peppermint oil used as a flavouring in drinks, confectionary, medicine, soaps and toothpaste
• Tonic, cough mixtures, bronchial trouble, asthma
• Cleaning wounds
• Gargles and mouth washes

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was educated at Harvard University and earned her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is married and has four children. Okonjo-Iweala was vice-president and corporate secretary of the World Bank Group. She left it in 2003 for a career as the Finance Minister of Nigeria. There she was put in charge of the economy of the most populous and oil-rich nation in Africa. In 2005 she led Nigerian negotiations that eliminated portions of Nigeria’s external debt. She introduced federal government financial transparency and was instrumental in obtaining Nigeria’s first ever solid credit rating. She resigned as Nigeria’s Foreign Minister in August 2006 and is notable for being the first woman to hold either position. In 2007 she was appointed Managing Director of the World Bank making Okonjo-Iweala one of the world’s most powerful and influential women.

Rift Valley, East African Tea Region

Green Tea Iced

A premium African Kenyan Zebra Sencha Green Tea, combined with green rooibos and thyme. This unique and remarkable infusion will offer a delightful experience to any green tea lover. Try it chilled. Organic contains caffeine.

Jasmine Nine Moon Green Tea, A Most try.

Jasmine Nile Moon

A distinctive blend of green teas containing Premium Jasmine Green Tea, Green Rooibos, and whole Jasmine flowers. Organic contains caffeine.

Green tea’s antioxidant power can fight the effects of free radicals on the body. There are substances in nature that can eliminate free radicals, and many of them, like tannins, catechins, and flavonoids, exist in green tea. Catechin is an especially potent free-radical fighter. To a lesser extent, vitamins A, C, and E are also antioxidants. Green tea contains high levels of all of these vitamins, and it is the most potent antioxidant drink available today. Green tea polyphenols have powerful anti-cancer, heart and brain protective and antibacterial properties. The most potent of these, EGCG, is present in very high levels in green tea, and it is vital for the prevention of cancer.

Green tea is relatively safe for most people, and has very few side effects. Most people that experience problems usually have a bit of insomnia due to the caffeine, but green tea has less caffeine than coffee. To be safe, women who are or could be pregnant should not drink green tea. Green tea’s antioxidant power is second to none, and it should be part of everyone’s healthy lifestyle. Of course, there are choices when it comes to how you get your daily dose of green tea. You can drink it, which is how people in Japan and China have enjoyed its benefits for centuries. However, some don’t really like the taste of green tea. For them, there are many quality green tea supplements on the market. Some are in tablet form, and some come as a liquid. The liquid formulas are generally more concentrated than the tablets (three tablets would contain about as much caffeine as a single cup of coffee). Either way, everyone should try green tea and experience the benefits themselves

The North African Kitchen Recipe Cook Book

Behind closed doors, North African home cooks are taking the region’s food to new heights. Traditional dishes such as tagines, stews, soups, and salads are being adapted and refined, and new dishes are being created using classic ingredients such as fiery spices, jewel-like dried fruits, lemons, and armfuls of fresh herbs.

The North African Kitchen is the result of Fiona Dunlop’s long fascination with the region. She visits eight of the best home cooks in Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya, shopping and cooking with them, and learning their favorite recipes and cooking tricks. Simplicity is at the heart of the private medina kitchen. The exotic fuses with the domestic to produce dishes that are highly flavored yet quick and easy to prepare. Tunisian cuisine is perhaps the hottest of the region-due in large part to the popularity of the fiery chili paste harissa. As well as a strong French influence, pasta is a passion in Tunisia. Morocco’s great forte is its tagines and sauces-with meat and fish being cooked in one of four popular sauces. And Libya, although less gastronomically subtle than Tunisia and Morocco, excels in soups and patisserie.

This culinary journey creates a vivid and sensual picture of how food is really shopped for and cooked in the private kitchens of some of the world’s most extraordinary gastronomic cultures.

Culinary Cycle Experience Feb. 2012

Culinary Cycle South Africa

African Relish is a proud member of the Bike & Saddle Eco-Active Network, which allows property owners to offer their guests a truly unique travel experience.

Bike and Saddle® is Africa’s leading Eco-Active travel company that runs guided active journeys and short excursions in partnership with some of the world’s premier properties, from a 2-hour guided cycle through Cape Town to an 11-day Cycle Safari in South Africa’s world-renowned game reserves.

Through this partnership guests can enjoy world-class cycling and the culinary experience of a lifetime on our unique Cape Culinary Cycle!

Our Organic Herbal Tea Blend Madiba is an honorary title used in South Africa to refer to elder statesmen. This title has become synonymous with Nelson Mandela and this tea celebrates his great work and inspirational life. A spectacular combination of rooibos, rose flowers, orange peel, safflower, blue cornflowers, dark chocolate chunks, chai spices and organic bergamot. A divine cup of tea during the spring, fall and winters or as a comforting tea for all ages. This tea is perfect as an herbal morning chai with milk or cream. Try it with a dash or two of honey. A very good herbal chai tea selection.

Kenyan Tea Farmers

CARANDA  HANDCRAFTED TEA

Dahomey - Black Tea Fruit Blend

A Naturally Harvested Black Tea Blend. This tea named in honor of the Dahomey Kingdom of Benin. This tea contains a delightful combination of Rwandan black tea, rooibos, lavender, hibiscus, mango chunks, calendula, lemon verbena, pomegranate, rosehips, and blackberry leaves. A perfect breakfast tea or delightful as an iced tea.

The Dahomey Empire is what we call Benin today. It was famous for the strong women warriors that protected this region in the 18^th. Century.

Women Warriors of Dahomey

Askia Tea Collection

The Askia collection celebrates the great Askia Empire of Ancient Africa. The collection is honoring the African tradition of gathering herbs and spices that invigorate and heal the body.
Think of sunny mornings, balmy afternoons and an enlightened evening. An uplifting and brightening collection of teas that makes for positive feelings, thoughts and a strengthened spirit. At its peak the Askia Empire encompassed the Hausa States as far as Kano (What is current-day North Africa, Nigeria & West Africa) and much of the territory that had belonged to the Mali Empire in the west of Africa. The teas, herbs and spices of this collection are of the highest quality.

Namji Doll 1940

  Namji is the people inhabiting an area in the West of the north Cameroon. The Namji tribe is famous for their wooden dolls carved with geometric features and adorned with multi-colored bead necklaces, cowrie shells, coins, metal strips, fiber and leather. The dolls held by young Namji girls to play and to ensure their fertility, are considered among the finest and the most beautiful dolls in Africa. They are carved from solid hardwood. The doll would have a name, be fed, be talked to and be carried strapped to the back everywhere the child would go. The most popular place to carry ones’ doll is strapped to the back the way real infants are toted around. This was the young girls’ first baby. This was her responsibility.

The doll helps prepare the young Namji woman for her role as mother in her future life.

Namji Woman with doll on her back

 Ike Ude Nigerian Artist.

Ike Ude

From his provocative Cover Girl series featuring photographic portraits of himself on the covers of popular magazines, to his writings on sexuality and identity, the work of Nigerian-born Iké Udé explores a world of dualities: African/postnationalist, photographer/performance artist, artist/spectator, male/female, mainstream/marginal, seduction/narcissism, and fashion/art. As an artist from Nigeria working in New York City, connected to the world of fashion and celebrity, Udé gives the political aspects of performance and representation a new vitality, melding his own theatrical selves and multiple personae with his art. Like Andy Warhol, Udé plays with the ambiguities of the marketplace and art world, particularly in his notorious art, culture, and fashion magazine, aRUDE. This book, which accompanies a traveling exhibition organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art, in Portland, Maine, is the first comprehensive publication on Udé’s photography. The book contains photographs of the installations “Beyond Decorum”, “Uses of Evidence”, and “Project Rear”; several series, including Cover Girls, Uli, and Celluloid; and photographs from his magazine aRUDE. The book also includes essays by Lauri Firstenberg, Kobena Mercer, Olu Oguibe, Valerie Steele, Octavio Zaya, and Iké Udé himself, as well as an interview with Udé conducted by Okwui Enwezor. The reader meets Udé the artist, editor, dandy, and aesthete. In his writing, Udé speaks of the futility of stereotypes, and in his photography, he brings to life the image of the artist in a plenitude of guises.

His work is in the permanent collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of Art, and in many private collections; exhibited in solo and group exhibitions; reviewed in Art in America, Flash Art, and the New York Times. His articles on Fashion and art have been published in magazines and newspapers worldwide.

Udé is the author of Style File: the Worlds Most Elegantly Dressed, recently published by Harper Collins in 2008. Style File is a remarkable volume that profiles more than 55 of the most influential arbiters of style in the world today. With a foreword by Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at F.I.T., and an introduction by Harold Koda, curator-in-charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this beautifully designed book provides an intimate perspective on these unique and influential men and women, offering frank insight to their views on fashion and life through evocative interviews and lush photography. Included among the many notable designers, artists, and public figures are John Galliano, Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, Isabel and Ruben Toledo, Victoire de Castellane, André Leon Talley, Dita Von Teese, Ute Lemper, Francesco Clemente, Christian Louboutin, Diane von Furstenberg, Lapo Elkann, Frédéric Malle, and many others.

Style File also features numerous editorial features that deepen the book’s exploration of enduring style. Annotated photo albums examine the work of premier style-making photographers such as Scavullo, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Coreen Simpson, Seydou Keïta, and Maripol. Illustrated essays including those by journalist and professor Nicholas Boston on the popular blog The Sartorialist and by George Pitts, associate chair of photography at the Parsons School of Design, on the Motown Look explore a range of fashion eras, influences, and influencers, from the Belle Epoque to the late visionary stylist Isabella Blow. Evocative archival and portrait photography of fashion legends from Marchesa Casati to Diana Vreeland, select aRude fashion editorials that point to recurring themes in the intertwined cultural-political-style landscape, and style-related aphorisms are featured throughout. This comprehensive, gorgeous book is a rich exploration of personal style that belongs in every well-dressed library.

Vanity Fair included him in the magazine’s International Best Dress List, in 2009. He lives and works in New York City.